US History A Timeline By sarahmarch22 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian War Begins 1763 The French and Indian War Ends 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1794 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1812 The War of 1812 Begins 1815 The War of 1812 Ends 1820 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Election 1830 The Trail of Tears 1835 The Invention of the Telegraph 1837 The Panic of 1837 1846 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1865 13th Amendment 1868 14th Amendment 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1869 15th Amendment 1876 The Invention of the Telephone 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President 1903 The Invention of the Airplane 1979 The Invention of the Electric Light